General Chat

Apparently it was worse than Christmas at our smallish local Tesco this morning. And, also apparently, one woman had 8 loaves. Now, maybe she has 6 children who knows but that does seem a tad greedy.

Hope she had a big freezer then or some will go mouldy before she can eat it.

Unless of course she does have 6 children, or was also buying for others or some sort of facility.

If there is one thing I am well supplied with it is soap.

We always use bar soap and, if I am given some as a gift, or, maybe, a hint, I will keep it as long as possible so that it gets well hard and lasts longer.

Lat year, a small soap company was having a sale and selling their gorgeous little heart shaped soaps at a fiver for twenty-five. They make good knicker whiffers in the drawer and are lovely soap anyway so I bought six boxes.

One of my old biddies did something very kind for me last year so I gave her a box and did a selection of them for the old biddies Christmas presents.

Most grocery deliveries I will buy a couple of bars as well, so we have soap if nothing else.

‘The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.’ (Mahatma Gandhi).

We like pork tenderloin for our Sunday roast, and always have 3 or 4 in the freezer. Even the "normal" sized one usually in the butcher section at our Safeway is twice the size that we would eat ............. so we cut that into 2 roughly equal part of just under 1lb each. Roast one and freeze one.

However, every now and again they have a sale on family-sized tenderloin, and I will get OH to buy one of those. We'll get 3 or 4 roughly 1lb roasts out of one of those, keeps the freezer stocked up.

They had family-sized ones on sale this weekend, so there is currently a large tenderloin in the fridge. This one will give us a roast for tonight and 2 in the freezer. It cost $7.45, but we saved $12.50 on the full price. It works out to a little less than the usual cost of our Sunday roast.

He didn't buy the second of the Limit of 2 at this price, so I don't feel we were overbuying

Just doing our usual thrifty buying! :-D

The lady buying the bread she might have a large family. I shop for 5 and we can get through 6 or more loaves a week. Time they've made sandwiches for work and lunches and snacks it soon goes.

Sylvia, we shop similar to you, buying extra when items we use are on special offer.

We live just over the brow of a hill and when we come off the drive it means a sharp right/left-angled turn to major shops unless we go to the little local where some stocks often run out before late-afternoon

Several years ago we had a regular mini-bus service going past our house but the winter after the bus went sailing down the hill, straight through someone's garden wall, just missing the lounge window, because it could not take the left-angled turn, the company stopped that service. That particular winter my OH and I trudged through the snow to shop, both of us carrying two full shopping bags back. It took ages, resting our arms now and then.

It was the winter when even a Tesco delivery van failed to make a Christmas food delivery to an older friend around the corner who was confined to her home.

By the following winter, not only had we bought a four-wheel drive, we had a fridge, freezer and larder cupboard in the laundry at the back of the garage and we now stock up just before Christmas every year in case we have a bad winter. We work our way through the products so don't have to buy them again until the weather is less inclement.

We have not had such a winter again but, even so, for two days this winter, the hill could not be negotiated - we watched as a couple of 4WDs even failed to do so.

Oh for the days when our local authority used to clear the road - but that stopped when the local mini bus service gave up the ghost!

Went into the local Sainsbury's this morning - no Toilet paper, baked beans, tins of tomatoes, 3 single packs of kitchen towel, no pasta, and strangely, no eggs! :-S
Eggs definitely have a shelf life - how many will go to waste?

Had they had any, I would have bought 1 tin of baked beans, 1 tin of tomatoes and 1 x 4 pack of toilet paper.
Nevertheless, I bought my other 'essentials' - 1 pint of milk, 1 tub of cream, 1 pack of butter (though not my usual sort - butter was very low), 1 x 6 pack of cat food, 2 x carrots (that is, literally, two carrots), 1 x courgette 1 pack of runner beans, and 2 x bottles of plonk!

I have this vague memory of Mum keeping eggs in a bucket of water. Could it have been over Christmas when the shops shut?

They can be kept in the fridge now - but it doesn't guarantee their freshness past their sell-by date!

But if you have been greedy and filled the fridge the bucket of water idea might help.

:-|

No need here to give it a try. :-)

I think eggs were kept in something called izonglass (I may have the wrong name but it was not just water) to keep them fresh. Bearing in mind they were usually really fresh as most people kept chickens.

Yep in isinglass which we used on the farm during gluts of eggs.

Fantasy preservative which kept eggs fresh for months and months :-D

Daughter and I went shopping today and it took visits to 3 supermarkets before we could buy eggs.
Elder daughter had requested some and we managed to get a box of 6 for her and the same for us in Morrisons, but Aldi and Sainsbury's had none.
Poor shop staff were working flat out in each of the stores trying to restock shelves as fast as they could.

Local Tesco "online" have NO delivery slots until 3rd April :-(

Earliest "Click & Collect" slot 26 March :-)

Son has agreed to collect,and I can amend the order until the 25th so maybe the things "not available" today will be by them....or maybe not!

A poor shelf-filler in Sainsbury's today was asked by a lady where something was.
He went to the shelf - nothing left.
Then he very politely asked:
"Is there anything else I can show you that we've run out of?"

rather like a jewish lady (I used to know),who's greeting was "good day vot can I do you for?"

Dtr placed an online food order to arrive at weekend - she usually shops online when she is away for part or some of the week. They contacted her to say that they could only supply three items from her list!

went online to do my food shop but there are no delivery slots available
so what are we golden oldies to do starve ???

i dont want much

I think that those who are found to be stockpiling, and then selling stuff on at a profit should have it taken away - like the man in Tennessee, who bought 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer from local shops.
People do NOT need over 60 toilet rolls!